New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-11
NO HELP FOR THE STRIKERS.
PROBABLE REBELLION OF ENGINEERS.

District Assembly Ne. 40 resolved 70 Piay ns iaso
srump Yesterday in the strike OF longshoremen ana
oa handlers and the chances are that the result OF
ehs NAV will he most disastrous to the player. Pend
inx tho negotiations which we're being carried on be-
tween Austin Corbn and the district all attempts to
osder out more in support OF the strike were sus-
pended. But it became apparent yesterday that no
3sttlemcnt could be reached tn ongh the Corbm nego
Siations aud last desperate move IL was resolved
sssH SsSd Of having Charge
60 order out the Eccentric Association OF a
e employees in all the ale and lager beer brewercs IN
Iev-York Brooklyn and suburban towns IN New.
Jersev "a tar "a Newark II this order was obeyea ~
would bring out strike 5,OOO brewers, nn. ai
and other men employed IN the DIeweSs atn to this
Sut down many factories, throwing thousands or
voriingmsn out Of employment and ,sa"t Eeat
~. a. tended TO be q stroke and TO ioroe a
ssdv sette,nent OF tho strike. The order WIN not DC
w "hsved al an and the chances are that only
mail proportion of the ale and porter orewers or sno
Nrueers will leave their work st the call OF the Gle
tist. !, ,,,o h,.w.
sres was sent to Secretary Louis Heerbrand OF nne
Journeymens National Union. ne anu cssS q" SEQ
petary e. A. Setert OF the Master brewers Assoe!ar
hon and informed him OF the receipt OF inc order MI
ifIt incurred whether the order included only such
Sswsr;ns "a used non union coal. "No," responded
Hesrbrsndt I" it includes all breweries."
The order WAS for the men TO 60 out at a. m To-
ssy but eerhrsndt assured seiiert that the would
not do 20 until their Executive Board had had Q
chance to decide Tor ITSELF The meeting VIII DO held
Mr.. Seifert said in regard to the matter We have
written agreement with the to last for one year
om April 10. 1886, in which they agree not 70 strike
without grievance. 1t has acted In most sat,sias
tory manner both for the and tie masters and do
not believe that the men will violate It,"
n ioSdsrs Of District Assembly No 40 and only
Abort time ago IN open rebellion, threatening 10
have the order unless they granted trade dis;
svee but there g0vd deal Of the soreness lett yet
The brewers well paid and their officers say they
win not be hurry to leave Oh work In struggle
which they regard ~ hopeless
The ale and porter brewers are under better dlsci-
pne and tho chances are that some OF them Will leave
On work this morning The master wolk man ana
terdxy and reported back to headquarters that the
men were ready to come out -,
peers One OF the leading officials OF the Eccentric As
socstion said yesterday that only small proportion.
Il any, OF the members OF the association would heed
the order. He was member OF the COMMITTEES who
brought about the conference with Austin Corbin. He
tolls the story OF these negotiations ss follows:
When tho question OF striking was FIRST suggested
10 the Eccentric Engineers they we're told that the
companies would have nothing to do with the knights
Of Labor They did not wish to give up their jobs
sary Tie committee appointed and WAS intro |
duced to Frederick A. Potts and Austin Corbn at the
City Hail. They spoke to 10th OF them about arbitra
Nom Mr.. Corbfn asked il they were empowered to |
Get for District No 40 and when informed that they
we're not, suggested that they bring down somebody
Putnam came down He asked In most insulting |
manner what right tho engineers had to Interfere in
ihe matter and was told that the engineers woald |
arbrt alton was useless. When they said they |
going 10 the other coal people they told that
It was useless that the committee OF No. 40 would
morning and convinced that he had acted In per-
feet good faith. An agreement had been made with
his employees by which they to start to work at
10 ceu n ElZabethpOrt G.
ceived from Port Richmond. They will be paid the
highest wages paid BY any other company when the
striko is settled and II this below L cents the
matter will be left to arbitration As soon as the coal
comes In it will be shipped to New-York. The ques
ton as asked the meeting hea Sunday how it wa
to New-York."
The engineers are dissatisfied with the man.
egement OF the strike and with the leaders of Dis
trict Assembly No. 40 and seriously considering
the question of taking their fourteen local mbes OF
engineers and 1remen and forming trade district of
their own. meeting will be held on Saturday night |
10 consider this and other subjects.
The officers and the friends of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad profess to know nothing OF any mis-
understanding respecting the recent agreement made
nt Philadelphia with representatives OF the Knights
pf Labor. The negotiations were conducted with no
view OF influencing the acton Of other corporations
and their successful issue means simply the ayerting
Of any possible strike on the Reading road. The ques-
ton Of the wages to he paid at Ezabethport is left 70
future arbitration and the men who made the agree
ment with the Reading officers understood fully the
possibility OF the abandonment of that place by the
company il the receivers should decide that business
considerations demanded it.
obeyed to-day II will be the most serious blow that
has yet been dealt to the strike aud in the opinion
many of the minor leaders will practically break it
and general stampede may be looked tor in the
course OF the next few days. Both James Z. Quinn
and Mr. Putnam were out Of the city yesterday, it is
There were few indications yesterday along the
water 'front.' that there bad been strike. Everything
was moving with the old time order and it only
an al QrO OF at
any variety to the appearance Of South and West SITS
There was general desertng from the ranks OF the
were many applications from the 1ongshoremen who
anxious to get work at the old rates The coal
handlers who left the employ of the Fall River line
Asked to bs taken back. They allowed return
to work in body but singy and at the old wages
T. Cove, applied at the Office OF the Steamboat Squad
on Wednesday night for permit to carry pistol His
boat the rst to carry load OF coal out OF Pcith
Amboy after the strike OF the coal handlers there and
since then many threats of violence ha, been made
against him. On Thursday night OF last week the boat
Covile saw rovboat containing three pull away
from the side OF his boat. On making An examn alton
he found that anger hole had been bored into tho
coal boats side. The boat about halt loaded and
would have been at the bottom He nailed |
plank tho hole and stopped the leak The boat
discharged her coal at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Jester
Business was more lively on the Brooklyn water
front than it has bean any Gay since the strike be-
Auo 90 LII respoh5e 10 theT
advertisements they got all the no were needed
One OF the Italian non-union men named Marvs
Delvccchio. OF Mulberryst, fell into grcin shute ON
the fifth floor of elevator at the Commercial wharf
and smothered His body dug out at the
third floor. The story Was current among the men
that number Of green hands had been missed since
they began to work and that they had been killed as
this by carelessncss In haneling grain and
that their bodies had gone with the cargoes Of the
vessels they assisting to load. No has been
reported missing by his friends, and the story was
secuted by those In authority over the men. The
Chesebrough Manufacturing Company, most of whose
men ere on strike, applied to Mayor Whitney yeser
day tor protection TOR the men who remain at work
and who ere practically in state of siege in the fac
tory.
On the East Side the unemployed 1ongshoremen did
nothing but dis the return OF 100 strikers to the
Wards Line piers, and many of them made no secret
OF their desire to return TO work. There fewer
police and detectives on duty at the piers and there